Greek Words in the Modern English Medical Vocabulary
Hundreds, if not thousands, of words from Greek have passed into the medical vocabulary of modern English. Among the most common are:
bioV = bios = life genea = genea = birth, race, descent gunaik- = gynec- = woman kardia = cardia = heart ofqalmoV = ophthalmos = eye paid- = ped- = child pneuma = pneuma = breath fusiV = physis = being; nature